A First Post On My [Free] Time

Greetings to all of you talented wordsmiths....I come to you live, and alive, from the far northeastern corner of Chicago. I have yet to post anything here on The Writer's Beat, so this will be my first......It is, actually, a test, if you will, to see if I can post a topic here that will then actually show up and have some comments posted concerning my submission.
You may think I'd know a bit more about this, what being someone who obviously enjoys writing and all, but nope, not the case.
I've spent, until three months ago, the past twenty five plus years of my life in prison, a Florida prison to be a bit more specific, and although you can do endless amounts of writing there, very little of it is done on an electronic device. So I've actually been trying to E=MC 2 my way through some very simple stuff: wondering why I can't post a new thread in a forum without getting an error msg.
Having discovered this love for writing, I must tell you all that it is exceedingly exhausting to literally learn computer 101 as a middle aged man that already suffers from a touch of A.D.D.......
But I love this site, and love to write, and it's nice to be free.